Day 386: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Nine

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

This is a dystopian novel. (I promise one day I will eventually review something other than a dystopian novel. Just all of the books I recently bought are dystopian novels. So, that's what I'm going to review obviously.)

In this one, the government has declared love a "disease" that can potentially kill you and has made it mandatory once a person has turned eighteen that they get cured. Then you are matched with someone that the government picks for you based on your evaluation. But there are people who run away before then and they are referred to as invalids and they run into the "Wilds" and supposedly die.

It's an awesome book but the ending will make you cry and those of you who have weak stomachs for violence, this may not be the book for you. The government in this book is pretty awful and tyrannical in it's ruling.

Day 385: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Eight

I read the whole thing.
ALL I HAVE TO SAY:

CREEPY AS FUCK

Day 384: One Hundred Book Challenge: Book Seven

Divergent by Veronica Roth is FUCKING AMAZING.

Probably one of my top five favorite Books. And yes, that does include the Harry Potter Series. And if you've met me in real life, I am an INSANE POTTERHEAD. Okay, I'm pretty sure I thought I was going to marry Tom Felton at one point and waited for my Hogwarts letter every day of the week for three months straight after my eleventh birthday and also convinced myself I could do magic. 

It is freaking awesome. It's another Dystopian novel and it's also a series. Insurgent just came out and I just started reading that one as well. 

I seriously could not stop reading this book. I took it with me to the bathroom. I read it in the bath tub. I stuffed it down my pants so that I could sneak out to my venue to read it at night at Extras. I denied sex, food, natural body functions and drink to read this book. I read it in four days. It was so good I JIZZED my pants. FOUR TIMES. and I asked my fiancee why he wasn't more like Four/Tobias.

Anyway, this book is about a government controlled future where the people are divided into five factions based on what they blame for the reason why the government crashed and burned in the past and what personalities they have. The factions are Amity, Dauntless, Erudite, Candor and Abnegation. You take a similation test and they place you based on your reactions to the different situations you are put in. Ultimately though, you make the choice in which faction you choose to spend the rest of your life. If you leave your family's faction, you most likely will never see your family again. "Faction before Blood" is the motto. 

This book was amazing and I shit myself like eighty three times because there are so many twists and turns that you never see coming. The author is amazing.

The only complaint I have is that the author had NOT EXAGGERATING AT ALL, 52 FIFTY FUCKING TWO pages of BULLSHIT about herself. TALK ABOUT A FUCKING EGO. DAMN. 

Day 383: One Hundred Book Challenge Book Six

I just realized that I never reviewed the sequel to Ally Condie's "Matched".

The sequel is Crossed.

If you haven't read Matched and you intend to then please do not read this review, it will give you spoilers to Matched. DO NOT FUCKING SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU

So this book starts off with Cassia and Ky being separated. Which totally blows. I'm a Ky fan. I will always be a Ky fan. I in fact hated the other guy. His name escapes me at the moment and that's how much I DON'T GIVE  A SHIT ABOUT HIM. This book was pretty much just as awesome as the first. Ally Condie is damn amazing. She keeps you hanging on.

The book ends at an AWFUL cliff hanger and you probably will piss yourself from anger. So be warned, you will need a change of pants.

Day 382: One Hundred Day Book Challenge: Book 4 and 5

I am posting these together because they are a series. The Series is called "The Chemical Garden Trilogy" (the third book is not yet out).
The author is Lauren Destefano.
The first book is entitled "Wither" and the second is entitled "Fever".

Once again, I'm on a Dystopian Literature kick. (I'm also writing one of my own. Look out for details about "Careful" in the near future). These books are under that genre. If you don't like them, then you probably shouldn't read this review. It's obviously not for you.

Anyway, I bought a whole bunch of dystopian novels awhile back and when I saw the cover of Wither, I did the worst thing you can ever do. I judged the book by it's cover.

This is the cover of Wither:

I saw the cover and assumed it was some kind of fashion novel. Or something I wouldn't really enjoy reading. So I didn't pick it up. Didn't even read the back cover. Just kept walking. 

Anyway, I went over to my best friend's house and was stealing her internet to look up the release date of the third book in the "Matched" trilogy by Ally Condie came out. (There is a review of the first two books in that series on my blog as well.) I also then began to look up other dystopian novels and this one came up in that list. When I actually read the summary, it sounded fucking amazing so I made my soon to be husband drive all the way BACK to Harrisburg (nearly an hour away from where we live) so that I could pick up this one and it's sequel to add to my hundred book challenge list. 

To give you a brief description of the books: 

It's set in a dystopian future, where they have found a cure for cancer, but that cure has made it so that men usually perish around the age of 25 and women around the age of twenty. Young girls are kidnapped from their homes and forced to marry men in order to reproduce. Most men take in anywhere between four and seven wives! This is what happens to the books protagonist Rhine. Except she decides she wants to escape and is planning her escape from the house the whole time. Her new husband falls in love with her though and she falls in love with someone who is considered a "servant" to the household.

First book: freaking awesome, couldn't put it down. There are some pretty gruesome scenes though. Women do not die pleasant deaths. 

Second book: ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I didn't particularly enjoy it. But I will still be buying the third, mainly because I'm rooting for the wrong side of the love triangle and I have to find out if I'm right or not. The second book is like 594859484584095834058430 times creepier than the first. Much more gruesome and scary. I had a few nightmares about the book afterwards. Not even kidding you. I'd give you more insight to what is happening in this book but it would definitely give away the ending to the first. 

Now if you're into CREEPY dystopian novels, this series is the perfect choice for you!